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Overview

The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest -- a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing . . . and came out with both intact.

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Author Information

Bio of James Rollins

James Rollins is the bestselling author of five Sigma Force thrillers (Sandstorm, Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, and The Last Oracle), the novelization of Lucasfilm's blockbuster movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and five individual adventure-thrillers. He's now working on The Doomsday Key, his twelfth thriller. His first adventure for kids and adults, Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow, will be available May 2009. Known for building high-octane adventures on a solid science foundation, Rollins juxtaposes the familiar with the exotic and then turbocharges his tales with suspense. Always mindful of history's legacy, Rollins reveals how secrets, some hidden for centuries, can change the course of human events. His novels explore how advancing technology can affect society--not just the physical threats of unchecked advancements, but also the spiritual and moral challenges. "The true terror of technology is not the cogs and the wheels, but how it will change us," he says.

Customer Reviews

  • 5 stars out of 5Amazonia

    Posted April 23, 2007 by nancy, Florida

    This is a terrific book - a lot of action and mystery, an easy read, keeps you wanting to know more and more about what's happening! Scientists and U.S. Rangers are both wanting to know more about a lost scientific expedition - and it's a race to see who gets the information first. Excitement, mystery, and tension make for a fascinating read! I'm a big fan of James Rollins and this is another of his cleverly written stories.

  • 5 stars out of 5Great Book

    Posted January 14, 2009 by Rustyb, Charleston S.C

    WoW, What a great Book!! From start to finish, I could not wait to read what was going to happen next. The story line keeps you on the edge of your seat and lets your imagination run wild. Writing style is the best I have ever seen!

  • 5 stars out of 5DONT FORGET YOUR BUG SPRAY!

    Posted July 23, 2009 by Read Her, Ft Lauderdale

    What an adventure!
    This is a virulent version of Indiana Jones ... not a wasted moment. The story shreds through the Amazon, booby trapped with danger, espionage and science. Very well written and researched. The characters are well developed, the location detailed crisply ... and the medical information (western and alternative) legitimizes the story (within reason).
    It was a great read and I'll be spending more time with Mr. Robbins in the future.
    You will not be disappointed!

  • 4 stars out of 5excellent

    Posted August 19, 2009 by james, honolulu

    a little bit of political correctness doesn't detract much if anything from this fast-paced pulp novel

Additional Info

Imprint

PerfectBound

Filesize

1.44 MB

Number of Pages

432

eBook ISBN

9780060727772

Excerpt from: Amazonia by James Rollins

August 6, 10:11 A.M.
Amazon Jungle, Brazil

The anaconda held the small Indian girl wrapped in its heavy coils, dragging her toward the river.

Nathan Rand was on his way back to the Yanomamo village after an early morning of gathering medicinal plants when he heard her screams. He dropped his specimen bag and ran to her aid. As he sprinted, he shrugged his short-barreled shotgun from his shoulder. When alone in the jungle, one always carried a weapon.

He pushed through a fringe of dense foliage and spotted the snake and girl. The anaconda, one of the largest he had ever seen, at least forty feet in length, lay half in the water and half stretched out on the muddy beach. Its black scales shone wetly. It must have been lurking under the surface when the girl had come to collect water from the river. It was not unusual for the giant snakes to prey upon animals who came to the river to drink: wild peccary, capybara rodents, forest deer. But the great snakes seldom attacked humans.

Still, during the past decade of working as a ethnobotanist in the jungles of the Amazon basin, Nathan had learned one important rule: if a beast were hungry enough, all rules were broken. It was an eat-or-be-eaten world under the endless green bower.

Nathan squinted through his gun's sight. He recognized the girl. ' Oh, God, Tama! ' She was the chieftain's nine-year-old niece, a smiling, happy child who had given him a bouquet of jungle flowers as a gift upon his arrival in the village a month ago. Afterward she kept pulling at the hairs on his arm, a rarity among the smooth-skinned Yanomamo, and nicknamed him Jako Basho, ' Brother Monkey. '

Biting his lip, he searched through his weapon's sight. He had no clean shot, not with the child wrapped in the muscular coils of the predator.